Shouldn't we be looking to increase our capacity with domestic data centers on U.S. soil, especially as we talk about the security of U.S. information?

In order for cloud computing to be successful and deliver the full benefits envisioned, it needs to be trusted and it needs to be secure.

I would like to extend my appreciation to each of our witnesses for taking the time and effort to appear before us today.

Thank you, Chairman Quayle. And good morning to our witnesses as well. I want to thank you all for being with us for this important hearing to examine both the benefits and risks of cloud computing.

We have to bring Tribal roads up to the level of our other roads at the State and Federal level.

We should not allow political fighting to hold up the critical extension, and ultimately a long-term reauthorization bill.

Chairman Akaka has been very aggressive on all of the issues across Native nations.

I strongly support the effort toward electric cars but I know one of the major comments I got after the legislation was passed in this committee is both domestic and international auto makers want to make sure that the bill does allow for…

So what I hear you saying implicitly is that China is pursuing this policy because the job creation potential, as well as the environmental benefits, as well as their national security concerns, and now I'd editorialize.

I'm concerned by the current proposals to make drastic changes to Amtrak, most notably to separate the Northeast Corridor from the rest of the Amtrak system.

It seems to me that we built this very, very war-heavy economy within Afghanistan if they're only generating a very small part.

I think the figure was used that 10 percent of the economy is really generated internally, and so that 90 percent is from the outside, from the United States and from all of this aid from our military efforts.

Would you agree it's important to maintain funding levels in the next surface transportation reauthorization to help States combat drunk driving?

We cannot let fall off.

The ROADS SAFE Act (S. 510) co-sponsored by Sen. Tom Udall, which will support the development of passive in-vehicle alcohol detection systems is one such innovative strategy.

I think it is clear from these three panels we have made progress, but we still have a lot to do, no doubt about it.

I have never seen the amount of momentum and progress that we have made in the last several years.

S. 510 (ROADS SAFE Act of 2011) will help accelerate this effort and open the door to a future where alcohol-impaired driving fatalities are a rarity versus the chronic traffic safety problem it remains today.